Summary of Laura Mulvey...
A important move in the use of Psychoanalytical theory in media film studies when Laura Mulvey used ideas of Jacques Lacan to argue that in the classical Hollywood narrative the spectator is constructed as male in 1975. In the history of films males have always been the 'hero' or main character, and female characters have always been mainly to be looked at or or to be saved. Mulvey argues a invention of complex males fear revolving around castration anxiety, male charcters were typically active, investigative narrative agents inviting identification while female fugures in film Brigitte Bardot were fertishized as objects of male gaze.
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Saturday, 1 December 2007
Interim Report
i agree and disagree with my interim as i think i do put more effort in my work than less than satisfactory...yes i talk alot in class but it dont mean i dont put effort in my work and half the time i talk about what we are discussing in class... and im always on time iv'e never been late to media... so i think usually on time needs to be changed... I think my capablity to work independly is right i sometimes get distracted and start chatting away... also my writing and ideas are right as i do think im particually not very good in this area and needs to be improved...My grade im not goining to lie right but i think i should of got better... Overall im disappointed with my interim..However i will be improving and hopefully pull my grade up to a C...
Targets :
- Put more effort into my work...
- Improve vocab...
- Improve writing structure...
i agree and disagree with my interim as i think i do put more effort in my work than less than satisfactory...yes i talk alot in class but it dont mean i dont put effort in my work and half the time i talk about what we are discussing in class... and im always on time iv'e never been late to media... so i think usually on time needs to be changed... I think my capablity to work independly is right i sometimes get distracted and start chatting away... also my writing and ideas are right as i do think im particually not very good in this area and needs to be improved...My grade im not goining to lie right but i think i should of got better... Overall im disappointed with my interim..However i will be improving and hopefully pull my grade up to a C...
Targets :
- Put more effort into my work...
- Improve vocab...
- Improve writing structure...
Monday, 26 November 2007
Sunday, 25 November 2007
Links
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/
this website has main features of the film.. it has details on the character and on the film it also provides a trailer of the film and explains the main storyline of the film.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Girls
This is another website which is useful as it explains more about the film outline... and similar texts made by same producer for example clueless...
http://www.meangirls.com/indexflash.html
this is a link to a mean girl website which features of the film.. back stage scenes...get to know more about the movie and images from the film making is also on there....
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/1105?cpn=20061101pa1
This link explains how and why teenage girls are so mean...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/quotes
This is a website were the famous quotes ... which may be helpful ...
http://www.amit.org.il/learning/english/stereotypesUnit10.htm
this is a link to stereotypes of women ...
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_girls.cfm
This website explains stereotypes of teenage girls....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/
this website has main features of the film.. it has details on the character and on the film it also provides a trailer of the film and explains the main storyline of the film.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Girls
This is another website which is useful as it explains more about the film outline... and similar texts made by same producer for example clueless...
http://www.meangirls.com/indexflash.html
this is a link to a mean girl website which features of the film.. back stage scenes...get to know more about the movie and images from the film making is also on there....
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/1105?cpn=20061101pa1
This link explains how and why teenage girls are so mean...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/quotes
This is a website were the famous quotes ... which may be helpful ...
http://www.amit.org.il/learning/english/stereotypesUnit10.htm
this is a link to stereotypes of women ...
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_girls.cfm
This website explains stereotypes of teenage girls....
10 More Media Key Words....
Celebrity...
This is an individual who becomes the center of attention for the audience, and is becomes well known and established to the public...
Feminism ...
political movement to advance the status of women by challenging values, social constructions and socioeconomic practices which disadvantage women and favour men...
Closure...
The state of psycholocical harmony acieved when issues causing concern or distress to an indvidual are resolved and anxiety is removed or reduced as a good .. at the end of the film there was a happy ending as the girls went there on ways and got on with lives and everyone was happy...
Insituation...
Any of the organizations responsible for the production, marketing, distribution or regulation of media texts.. Mean girls is distributed by paramount pictures...
Femme Fatale...
A female character who uses her sexuality, often in devious, disreputable, secretive ways, to achieve the end she desires..In Mean Girls Regina uses her sexuality to take away Kady's lover....
Male Gaze...
Laura Mulvey theory on how males see females from there point of view ... for eample Regina shown as a sex object....
Celebrity...
This is an individual who becomes the center of attention for the audience, and is becomes well known and established to the public...
Feminism ...
political movement to advance the status of women by challenging values, social constructions and socioeconomic practices which disadvantage women and favour men...
Closure...
The state of psycholocical harmony acieved when issues causing concern or distress to an indvidual are resolved and anxiety is removed or reduced as a good .. at the end of the film there was a happy ending as the girls went there on ways and got on with lives and everyone was happy...
Insituation...
Any of the organizations responsible for the production, marketing, distribution or regulation of media texts.. Mean girls is distributed by paramount pictures...
Femme Fatale...
A female character who uses her sexuality, often in devious, disreputable, secretive ways, to achieve the end she desires..In Mean Girls Regina uses her sexuality to take away Kady's lover....
Male Gaze...
Laura Mulvey theory on how males see females from there point of view ... for eample Regina shown as a sex object....
On Tuesday's lesson Me n my blog buddy Zara discussed more ideas that we could raise between both our independent studies...
we discovered two main areas such as stereotypes and feminism...
As we both are analyzing are teenagers... as Zara's independent study is more on young youth in general but my study is more specifically on teenage girls.. so we discussed that we could relate our studies both too stereotypes of teenagers...we also thought that as both are text are showing how females are shown from the past and how they have changed over they years and how they are portrayed in today's society .... the last area we thought we look at was how celebrity are portrayed in our independent studies following the theorists of dyer.. how they need celebrities to gain more audiences and also to make the film more well known...
we discovered two main areas such as stereotypes and feminism...
As we both are analyzing are teenagers... as Zara's independent study is more on young youth in general but my study is more specifically on teenage girls.. so we discussed that we could relate our studies both too stereotypes of teenagers...we also thought that as both are text are showing how females are shown from the past and how they have changed over they years and how they are portrayed in today's society .... the last area we thought we look at was how celebrity are portrayed in our independent studies following the theorists of dyer.. how they need celebrities to gain more audiences and also to make the film more well known...
Monday, 19 November 2007
Blog Buddy Research...
As Me and Zara both looked at how women are representated, we both study on Laura Mulvey 'Male Gaze' theory. This website tells everything about Laura Mulvey theory in depth.
Monday, 12 November 2007
BOOK RESEARCH
1 The New feminism.Walter, Natasha 1998, Lancaster Place, London
Describes how women have changed over the years and how they were back in the day and how in todays society gradually changing...
2 Media Studies reader Tim O Sullivan & Yvonne Jewkes 1997, London
pg146 - 154 representation of females...
3 Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture - Joanne Hollows 2000 Manchester Uiversity
pg 38 womans in films...
4 Gauntlet David 2002:Media, Gender and Identity, An Introduction USA +Canada
pg 9 -12 Femininity...
pg 3 - men and women today
chapter 3 representation of gender in the past...
pg 42- 50 - women and men on TV AND women and men in movies....
pg 252- popular feminism women and men...
5 Sullivan O Tim, Dutton Brain, Rayner Phillip 2003: Studying the Media 3rd Edition, GB
pg 59 - film stars...
pg 78 stereotypes...
6 Hartley John 2002: Communication, Culture and media Studies, USA+Canada
pg 202 - representation...
pg 215 -stereotypes...
7 Casey Bernadette, Casey Neil, Calvor Ben, French Liam and Lewis Justin 2002:Televison Studies,USA +Canada
pg 95 - 98 -Feminism...
pg 255-260 - women in television...
Dyer 1993
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
BlOg bUdDy...
My blog buddy from our class is zara... similarly we both relate as we analysing on young teenage youths of todays society... My film is more based on a chick flick as zara's is on in general teenagers in todays society...
My blog buddy from the other class is karina... as we both are doing the same text and similarly question.. we both can help each other as we both looking at the same aspect of the texts how teenage girls are represented...
My blog buddy from the other class is karina... as we both are doing the same text and similarly question.. we both can help each other as we both looking at the same aspect of the texts how teenage girls are represented...
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Mean Girls Research...
A link to a mean girls website i found.. it's really interesting the way they publish there website.. it's lay out is like a magazine.. and also has music matching with the genre of the film played in the background. Main features are to attracts to female teenagers as it has things like horoscopes, how to be a mean girl , it has images, music to download and much more...
A link to a mean girls website i found.. it's really interesting the way they publish there website.. it's lay out is like a magazine.. and also has music matching with the genre of the film played in the background. Main features are to attracts to female teenagers as it has things like horoscopes, how to be a mean girl , it has images, music to download and much more...
...Evaluation...
Attaintment - C
The overall grade i want to achieve is a C
Effort - 2
I do put alot of effort into my work in class
Punctuality - 1
I' m always on time, never late to lessons.
Submission and quality of homework - 3
Homework is on time allthough a few times maybe late but is always completed, quailty of it needs to be improved though.
Ability to work independantly -2
Can work well independtly
Quality of writing -3
Need to improve on my writing
Organisation of folder -1
My folder is organised and up to date
Oral contributions in class - 2
Contribute in class discussions and in group work
Standard of module 5 blog - 2
My blog is bright colourful has relevant information on independant study and all tasks completed.
Standard of module 6 blog - 4
This blog... honestly most work has been copied and pasted information for presenation but still has relevant information towards subject of presentation, needs to be improved on alot.
WWW
- Blog tasks being completed good
- Work on independant study and class work
EBI
-More research on independant study
-Improve module 6 blog
Attaintment - C
The overall grade i want to achieve is a C
Effort - 2
I do put alot of effort into my work in class
Punctuality - 1
I' m always on time, never late to lessons.
Submission and quality of homework - 3
Homework is on time allthough a few times maybe late but is always completed, quailty of it needs to be improved though.
Ability to work independantly -2
Can work well independtly
Quality of writing -3
Need to improve on my writing
Organisation of folder -1
My folder is organised and up to date
Oral contributions in class - 2
Contribute in class discussions and in group work
Standard of module 5 blog - 2
My blog is bright colourful has relevant information on independant study and all tasks completed.
Standard of module 6 blog - 4
This blog... honestly most work has been copied and pasted information for presenation but still has relevant information towards subject of presentation, needs to be improved on alot.
WWW
- Blog tasks being completed good
- Work on independant study and class work
EBI
-More research on independant study
-Improve module 6 blog
TASK 7
Audience - The audience is differnt individuals or groups targeted by the film producers as the consumers of the film. it's generally the people whom the film is targeted towards. Mean girls is a chick flick which is mainly targeted at teenage girls.
Genre - The genre is a caterogaory of media proiducts classed as being similar in form and type. ei. of genres are Films, magazines and television also the types of them and form such as televison progrramme documentaries. The genre for Mean girls is Drama comedy, classified under Chick flick (teen movie).
Idelogy- Ideology is a beliefs and values of something by a group of people who discuss what they think about a media text and the particular way of life including values and beliefs.
Key Concepts - Key Concepts is the main focusses on all the media studies, this includes focusinng on all aspects of audience, genre, ideology, institutions, language, narrative and represnetation.
Protagnist- Protagnists is the main character the hero of the film, this is selected by the audience whom the hero is, and from whose point of view the scene is focussed on, they would normally use this on a binary opposition against the antagonist. In Mean girls they uses Lindsay Lohan ( Cady) as the protagnist the hero of the film and Regina as the antagonist ( binary oppositions).
POV- Point of view shot is where the audience identify the scene from the charaters Prospects. Such as Lindsay lohan tells her story so it's shown from her POV in most scenes.
Audience - The audience is differnt individuals or groups targeted by the film producers as the consumers of the film. it's generally the people whom the film is targeted towards. Mean girls is a chick flick which is mainly targeted at teenage girls.
Genre - The genre is a caterogaory of media proiducts classed as being similar in form and type. ei. of genres are Films, magazines and television also the types of them and form such as televison progrramme documentaries. The genre for Mean girls is Drama comedy, classified under Chick flick (teen movie).
Idelogy- Ideology is a beliefs and values of something by a group of people who discuss what they think about a media text and the particular way of life including values and beliefs.
Key Concepts - Key Concepts is the main focusses on all the media studies, this includes focusinng on all aspects of audience, genre, ideology, institutions, language, narrative and represnetation.
Protagnist- Protagnists is the main character the hero of the film, this is selected by the audience whom the hero is, and from whose point of view the scene is focussed on, they would normally use this on a binary opposition against the antagonist. In Mean girls they uses Lindsay Lohan ( Cady) as the protagnist the hero of the film and Regina as the antagonist ( binary oppositions).
POV- Point of view shot is where the audience identify the scene from the charaters Prospects. Such as Lindsay lohan tells her story so it's shown from her POV in most scenes.
McGuffin- McGuffin is a term used by Alfred Hitchcock for red herring or distracting, irrelevant plot detail, which grabs viewers attention away from the main event occuring by making it to be improtant and turing it to be irrelevant.
Target audience - The target audience is main audience that the media text is aimed towards. Mean girls main target audience is teenage girls, buh as secondary it is also a family film as it's genre is drama comedy which could be targeted at family.Sterotype - This is the social classification of a group of people identifyed as a common characterists. Such as 'dumb' blonde, this is used in mean girls as the girls are stated as 'Mean' girls and are 'dumb' blondes.
Voice over- The voice over is a actors voice over the film. In Mean girls the Voice over is Lindsay Lohan as she tells her story...Monday, 15 October 2007
Mean girlz Clip
This is a clip from the film Mean girls, directed by Mark S Walters. The genre of the film is drama comedy/ chick flick.
the opening of the clip starts as the 4 plastics they are arguing over how ragina can not sit on the table because she is wearinf the wrong clothes.. as htey match clothes for each day... close shots are shown as the audience gets to see the facial expressions of the four girls, humour is also shown in the scene too this is used to brake down the seriousness of the issue. comments are made showing the bitchness, which makes regina feel low as one student calls her fat ass.
There is also a narrator, which is Lindsay Lohan telling the story from her point of view.
The costumes the girls wear are all matching for each day as they all wear skirts.
the music played during the clip is all parallel sounds to the scenes...
Throught out the film you see what teenage girls get up too. As a typical steroytype of girls would be, when parents gone away they through a house party. You see whatthey actually get up to as they drink, you see romance in the clip between Cady and Aran.
Todrovian is created as there alot of disequillbrium is shown in this clip and cady realsies her mistakes as her mates and and the boy she likes start to dislike her for who shes turned into...
what she's doing to herself just to be someone she is not.
This is a clip from the film Mean girls, directed by Mark S Walters. The genre of the film is drama comedy/ chick flick.
the opening of the clip starts as the 4 plastics they are arguing over how ragina can not sit on the table because she is wearinf the wrong clothes.. as htey match clothes for each day... close shots are shown as the audience gets to see the facial expressions of the four girls, humour is also shown in the scene too this is used to brake down the seriousness of the issue. comments are made showing the bitchness, which makes regina feel low as one student calls her fat ass.
There is also a narrator, which is Lindsay Lohan telling the story from her point of view.
The costumes the girls wear are all matching for each day as they all wear skirts.
the music played during the clip is all parallel sounds to the scenes...
Throught out the film you see what teenage girls get up too. As a typical steroytype of girls would be, when parents gone away they through a house party. You see whatthey actually get up to as they drink, you see romance in the clip between Cady and Aran.
Todrovian is created as there alot of disequillbrium is shown in this clip and cady realsies her mistakes as her mates and and the boy she likes start to dislike her for who shes turned into...
what she's doing to herself just to be someone she is not.
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Chick Flick - A chick flick is a film which is targeted at female teenagers.
chcik flicks main purpose is to entertain, with a bit of romance. it usually focusses mostly on teenage girls lifestyles... Mean girls is targeted towards teenage girls...
Equillibrium - Equillibrium is a a narrative which starts of balanced.
Disequillbrium - Disequillibrium is when the equillirium is challenged by an event causing it to unbalance the film.
Resolution- This is the conclusion of a problem occured during the film which then gets resolved in the end.
Flashbacks - Flashbacks is when they show a scene of were the narrartive would go back in time and show what occured in the past...flashbacks occur throughtout the film...
Hero- a hero is a female or male protagnist in the film, which is identified by the audience as more dominated ideology, some one as the good person in the film...the hero of the film would be Lindsay Lohan...
Mise en scéne- A Mise en scéne is french for put in the picture/scene. it is for everything to be put in the frame. This include Costumes Lighting Actors Makeup Props Setting... the costumes worn are girly, pink, and all the plastics match there clothes, the lighting is high key lighting on the 4 main girls, the actors are Lindsay Lohan,... and the settin gis based in school...
Propp - (Propp Viadimir 1995 - 1970)the propp is the charcters role and narrative... This includes hero, villians, the helper of the hero, fake hero, a princess etc... the hero being Cady and villian Regina...
Romantic comedy- This is a film genre which the 2 main protagnists male and female happen to fall in love with eachother. Cady and th emost popular boy...
Split screen -A split screen is a editing technique, this is where the screen is split into 2 or more showing the same scene in one frame...with all the girls on the phone to eachother this is when shown in splitscreen...
chcik flicks main purpose is to entertain, with a bit of romance. it usually focusses mostly on teenage girls lifestyles... Mean girls is targeted towards teenage girls...
Equillibrium - Equillibrium is a a narrative which starts of balanced.
Disequillbrium - Disequillibrium is when the equillirium is challenged by an event causing it to unbalance the film.
Resolution- This is the conclusion of a problem occured during the film which then gets resolved in the end.
Flashbacks - Flashbacks is when they show a scene of were the narrartive would go back in time and show what occured in the past...flashbacks occur throughtout the film...
Hero- a hero is a female or male protagnist in the film, which is identified by the audience as more dominated ideology, some one as the good person in the film...the hero of the film would be Lindsay Lohan...
Mise en scéne- A Mise en scéne is french for put in the picture/scene. it is for everything to be put in the frame. This include Costumes Lighting Actors Makeup Props Setting... the costumes worn are girly, pink, and all the plastics match there clothes, the lighting is high key lighting on the 4 main girls, the actors are Lindsay Lohan,... and the settin gis based in school...
Propp - (Propp Viadimir 1995 - 1970)the propp is the charcters role and narrative... This includes hero, villians, the helper of the hero, fake hero, a princess etc... the hero being Cady and villian Regina...
Romantic comedy- This is a film genre which the 2 main protagnists male and female happen to fall in love with eachother. Cady and th emost popular boy...
Split screen -A split screen is a editing technique, this is where the screen is split into 2 or more showing the same scene in one frame...with all the girls on the phone to eachother this is when shown in splitscreen...
Representation of teenage girls in Mean Girls ...
this links to my blog as it has analysed the film as i will be doing..
Represenatation of teenage girls in Mean Girls ...
as this is the same question as mines, she has analysed many things that are relevant to me.
Representation of women in Sugargush
sugar rush is showing how young women are represented in the programme, this realtes to my independent study as i am look at females represented.
Representation of females in Kidulthoood
This blog links to mines as they are looking at females in kidulthood, the females in the film are
teengers as this links to my study as well.
Representation of women in Charles Angels Full Throttle
This film is link to my study as she looks at women represented, as it is similar as i will be analsying on young women.
Representation of women in House Of Flying Daggers
Representation of women in Pretty Persuasion
Representation of women in Kill Bill
Representation of women in She's A Man
Representation of women in Sex In The City
this links to my blog as it has analysed the film as i will be doing..
Represenatation of teenage girls in Mean Girls ...
as this is the same question as mines, she has analysed many things that are relevant to me.
Representation of women in Sugargush
sugar rush is showing how young women are represented in the programme, this realtes to my independent study as i am look at females represented.
Representation of females in Kidulthoood
This blog links to mines as they are looking at females in kidulthood, the females in the film are
teengers as this links to my study as well.
Representation of women in Charles Angels Full Throttle
This film is link to my study as she looks at women represented, as it is similar as i will be analsying on young women.
Representation of women in House Of Flying Daggers
Representation of women in Pretty Persuasion
Representation of women in Kill Bill
Representation of women in She's A Man
Representation of women in Sex In The City
Monday, 1 October 2007
Sunday, 30 September 2007
Sunday, 23 September 2007
The soundtrack for the film
Dancing With Myself - The Donnas
God Is A DJ - Pink
Milkshake - Kelis
Sorry (Don't Ask Me) - All Too Much
Built This Way - Samantha Ronson
Rip Her to Shreds - Boomkat
Overdrive - Katy Rose
One Way or Another - Blondie
Operate - Peaches
Misty Canyon - Anjali Bhatia
Mean Gurl - Gina Rene and Gabriel Rene
Hated - Nikki Cleary
Psyché Rock - Pierre Henry
The Mathlete Rap
Dancing With Myself - The Donnas
God Is A DJ - Pink
Milkshake - Kelis
Sorry (Don't Ask Me) - All Too Much
Built This Way - Samantha Ronson
Rip Her to Shreds - Boomkat
Overdrive - Katy Rose
One Way or Another - Blondie
Operate - Peaches
Misty Canyon - Anjali Bhatia
Mean Gurl - Gina Rene and Gabriel Rene
Hated - Nikki Cleary
Psyché Rock - Pierre Henry
The Mathlete Rap
Proposal
Film: Mean Girls (12a)
Date: 18 June 2004
Length: 97 minutes
Director: Mark S Waters
Country: USA
Hypothesis: Mean gils represents sterotypical good and bad teenage girls.
Media Language:
-Clothing "Plastics" match what they wore everyday by colour and style. - Feminie clothes used ei. mostly pink
- Parallel music/sounds throughtout the film.
- Scenery based mainly at school.
Instituation: Hollywood - Paramount Pictures
Genre: Comedy/Family
Representation:Good & bad teenage girls
Audience: Tennage girls
Ideology: About teenage girls that are more interested in fashion, makeup, boys then education .who's most popular girls/boys, what extent girls would go just to be popular.
Narrative: Non linear (flashbacks throughout)
Social: What teenage girls come across in today's society.
Historical: Shows how teenage girls have changed throughout the years.
Theorists : Propp - Villian & Hero, TODROV - equillibrium and disequillbrium.
Film: Mean Girls (12a)
Date: 18 June 2004
Length: 97 minutes
Director: Mark S Waters
Country: USA
Hypothesis: Mean gils represents sterotypical good and bad teenage girls.
Media Language:
-Clothing "Plastics" match what they wore everyday by colour and style. - Feminie clothes used ei. mostly pink
- Parallel music/sounds throughtout the film.
- Scenery based mainly at school.
Instituation: Hollywood - Paramount Pictures
Genre: Comedy/Family
Representation:Good & bad teenage girls
Audience: Tennage girls
Ideology: About teenage girls that are more interested in fashion, makeup, boys then education .who's most popular girls/boys, what extent girls would go just to be popular.
Narrative: Non linear (flashbacks throughout)
Social: What teenage girls come across in today's society.
Historical: Shows how teenage girls have changed throughout the years.
Theorists : Propp - Villian & Hero, TODROV - equillibrium and disequillbrium.
Thursday, 20 September 2007
Review on Mean Girls (2004)
Best Teen Movie Ever, 23 November 2004
Lindsay Lohan plays a teen girl trying to get along at a new high school. This time, she plays a girl home schooled in Africa, whose first experience at a public school is marred by a clique of nasty girls called the Plastics, who use gossip and other torture techniques to try to ruin her social life.The story makes it sound like another generic teen film but this one is actually quite funny and realistic. The most cynical person will point out that this is a cheap rip off of Heathers and they are similar. While Heathers is a good movie, mean Girls is an even better movie. I think Mean Girls is very good for a number of reasons. First, the script is actually creative and smart. Tina Fey seems to understand that teens want comedies they can relate to and she did that with Mean Girls. Of course, there were a few lame scenes but nothing that kills the film. Tina Fey should leave SNL and focus on her career in movies.Second, the acting is very good and convincing. Rachel McAdams offers the best and funniest performance as Regina. Her character is very mean (hence the title) yet I found it so hard to actually hate her. She has this charm that sucks the audience in on her and its so hard to hate her. Lindsay Lohan also gives a good performance as Cady. Her best scenes are with Rachel. They have very good chemistry together. The other plastics are played by Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried. They also give good performances and the scenes that have all the plastics together are very entertaining. The rest of the supporting cast are pretty good and Tina Fey also has a small role as Cady's math teacher.Another reason why Mean Girls is so good is because it's actually funny for people over the age of 21. It's not just for teens but also for adults. Mark Waters is proving to be very good at directing harmless comedies like Freaky Friday and this one. He keeps the film short yet enormously entertaining. I really don't understand how someone could actually give this movie a one. I understand some people finding it over the top or stupid but it doesn't deserve a one. In the end, this smart and funny teen movie deserves to be seen. Rating 8/10
Best Teen Movie Ever, 23 November 2004
Lindsay Lohan plays a teen girl trying to get along at a new high school. This time, she plays a girl home schooled in Africa, whose first experience at a public school is marred by a clique of nasty girls called the Plastics, who use gossip and other torture techniques to try to ruin her social life.The story makes it sound like another generic teen film but this one is actually quite funny and realistic. The most cynical person will point out that this is a cheap rip off of Heathers and they are similar. While Heathers is a good movie, mean Girls is an even better movie. I think Mean Girls is very good for a number of reasons. First, the script is actually creative and smart. Tina Fey seems to understand that teens want comedies they can relate to and she did that with Mean Girls. Of course, there were a few lame scenes but nothing that kills the film. Tina Fey should leave SNL and focus on her career in movies.Second, the acting is very good and convincing. Rachel McAdams offers the best and funniest performance as Regina. Her character is very mean (hence the title) yet I found it so hard to actually hate her. She has this charm that sucks the audience in on her and its so hard to hate her. Lindsay Lohan also gives a good performance as Cady. Her best scenes are with Rachel. They have very good chemistry together. The other plastics are played by Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried. They also give good performances and the scenes that have all the plastics together are very entertaining. The rest of the supporting cast are pretty good and Tina Fey also has a small role as Cady's math teacher.Another reason why Mean Girls is so good is because it's actually funny for people over the age of 21. It's not just for teens but also for adults. Mark Waters is proving to be very good at directing harmless comedies like Freaky Friday and this one. He keeps the film short yet enormously entertaining. I really don't understand how someone could actually give this movie a one. I understand some people finding it over the top or stupid but it doesn't deserve a one. In the end, this smart and funny teen movie deserves to be seen. Rating 8/10
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
This is the image used for the cover of the film, it shows how Lindsay Lohan is looking towards the three girls, you sence a bit of attitude in the atmosphere and you see how they are both have differnt types of personalities as the plastcis connate a theme as they are all wearing short skirts and all colour matched were as on the other hand Lindsay Lohan is looking casual. There is also a short phrase at the bottom saying "Watch you back" this shows the tension between two of them as Lindsay Lohan is facing there back towards the three girls, this connates the how mean the girls are which brings it back to the title of the film.
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